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Irvine Valley College Institutional Student Educational Goals
and Learning Outcomes: 2012–2013
Institutional Educational Goals
Communication Skills
Critical Thinking, Problem Solving,
and Information Access and Analysis
Global Awareness
Aesthetic Awareness
Personal, Professional
and Civic Responsibilities
Student Learning Outcomes
Because individual IVC courses contribute* to one or more areas
of the five institutional goals, students completing an associate
degree at Irvine Valley College will be able to:
• Communicate effectively when speaking, writing, and
presenting to a variety of audiences and with a variety
of purposes.
• Engage in critical and creative thinking to solve problems,
explore alternatives, and make decisions.
• Develop comprehensive, rational arguments for ethical
positions and describe the implications for the individual and
the larger society.
• Apply mathematical approaches and computational
techniques to solve problems; to manipulate and interpret
data; and to disseminate the data, methodology, analysis,
and results.
• Apply the fundamentals of scientific inquiry to real-life and
hypothetical situations.
• Use a variety of media, including computer resources, to
access, organize, evaluate, synthesize, cite, and communicate
that information.
• Demonstrate and observe sensitive and respectful treatment
of diverse groups and perspectives in a variety of settings.
• Demonstrate an awareness of historical and contemporary
global issues and events.
• Demonstrate intercultural competence by engaging
effectively—e.g., listening, speaking, writing, signing—with
others whose language, ethnicity, religion, culture, country
of origin, or economic or social background is different than
their own.
• Make use of a variety of critical methods to analyze, interpret,
and evaluate works of literary, visual, and performing art.
• Identify and recognize opportunities to participate in the
creative arts as an artist, performer, observer, or technician.
• Recognize the historic and cultural role of the creative arts in
forming human experience.
• Identify and recognize opportunities to address civic and
environmental needs.
• Promote physical and mental well-being, self-management,
maturity, and ethical decision-making.
* “Contribute” means that a specific course may fully or partially address the abilities described in a particular bulleted point.
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